Tag: ESA

  • This Eclipse is Different

    This Eclipse is Different

    Eclipses When the Earth, Moon, and Sun line up in space, we can see an eclipse. NASA studies eclipses from the ground, in our atmosphere, and in space, influencing solar, planetary, and Earth science. Today on April 8, the Moon’s shadow will sweep across the United States and Canada, as millions will view a total solar…

  • 2022 And NOT Another Year Closer To Private company Asteroid Mining

    2022 And NOT Another Year Closer To Private company Asteroid Mining

    It’s been eight years since an historic landing took place between an European Space Agency drone and a comet.(which looked suspiciously a lot like an asteroid to us!) At that time a report from Deep Space Industries laid out their business plans up to 2020 and what they had committed to  sounded more like science…

  • The Commonwealth Opinion: Extreme Events Are Reversing Development Goals

    The Commonwealth Opinion: Extreme Events Are Reversing Development Goals

    Cyclones in the Caribbean and Pacific, devastating bushfires in Australia, recurrent floods and droughts in Asia and Africa, increasingly bring tragic loss of life to our nations and communities, inflicting physical and mental trauma on survivors, and causing irreparable damage to centuries old ways of life and undermining prospects for future prosperity and growth. The…

  • Watch Live Stream Attempt Here By ESA Exo/Mars To Land On Red Planet This Wednesday

    Watch Live Stream Attempt Here By ESA Exo/Mars To Land On Red Planet This Wednesday

    At about 17:30 CEST on 16 October, the data link with the ExoMars/TGO orbiter had still not been fully re-established following separation. Subsequently, at around 18:40 CEST, ESA (the European Space Agency) re-established a full data link with the spacecraft, and the mission control team could confirm that separation had taken place as planned, at 16:42…